Primary languages are to be a compulsory element of the school curriculum in September 2014. To ensure that we are fully prepared for this challenge and to improve the existing language learning for pupils at school, we aim to send four members of staff with some language skills, over a period of 24 months, on eight day language immersion courses in France. The course provides 14 hours of high quality language lessons from native speakers. In order to prepare for the course, staff will be offered extra language lessons, prior to travelling and these sessions will also be delivered by a native speaker. Once in France, staff will be taught in groups according to their language ability and will be encouraged to speak in the target language as much as possible and communicate with local people. They will be fully supported and monitored by the course providers. The course also includes a day in a French primary school and a wide range of carefully chosen cultural activities, with the aim of giving staff a sense of culture and to increase their subject knowledge. Staff will create a bank of resources and ideas to take back to school, to enable them to be more effective teachers. By maintaining a link with the school, staff will be able to develop and participate in future projects, such as job shadowing opportunities. Participants are already part of a local language network, which aims to become stronger as a result of the project, enabling staff to support each other. Total immersion will challenge staff to use their language skills, which will then give them a greater confidence in their own abilities. The main objectives are to increase the level of competency across the whole school, so that language learning can be sustained, to increase cultural awareness amongst pupils so that they become global citizens and to establish and maintain a link with a partner primary school so that pupils can experience communicating and working with real pupils in another country. It is envisaged that the long term benefits of the training will be the delivery of high quality language learning throughout the whole school, with French completely embedded within the curriculum.